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weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …
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weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683353
weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096476
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …
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This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
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We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a …
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The amount of political information that voters decide to acquire during an electoral campaign depends, among other things, on prior ideological beliefs about parties and/or candidates. Voters that are ex ante indifferent about the candidates attach little value to information because they...
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This paper studies the effect of a politician's ideological strength on campaign contributions that the politician receives from interest groups. If interest groups care mainly about current, or short-run, policy outcomes, they will make campaign contributions to ideologically neutral...
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differentially associated with economic ideology, and these correlations tally with the policy effects …
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This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189045